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Old 06-10-2011, 07:00 AM   #318 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by supercarz View Post
technically you could list grunge under metal.... if you've watched "metal a headbangers journey"
Well Nirvana do have metal influences, especially on Bleach, namely being Black Sabbath and some crossover-thrash bands such as Clown Alley, but they have more punk influences than metal influences in my view. To me their music is well and truly under the alternative rock banner rather than metal itself. The thing is with the grunge label is that while many bands were labelled 'grunge' there was a lot of diversity in sound and you have more metal-sounding bands like Alice In Chains being categorised along with more punk-sounding bands such as Nirvana and Mudhoney.
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